Tuesday, July 29, 2008

it was like being on holiday, wandering about gardens, being super hot, smelling of suntan lotion, carrying liters of water.the slackline was over 6ft high, and about 15ft long - I didn't get to go on it though since I've killed off my knees.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

brown belt from ebay - I think it's 70s home made octopuses pocket watch (a shell with a bit of chain threaded through the hole left where the join to the other half of the shell used to be) DIY french manicure - eg white eyeliner pencil scibbled onto fingernail tips, coat of varnish, some smearing and chips - ready to go! wrap around skirt with massive birds on it - vintage, probably 70s

Courgettes are in season now, and there seems to be a lot of them flooding in from the allotments of colleagues at work (one of the bought in a courgette cake he made yesterday based on this recipie - it was yum).

I happily took a free courgette, and combined it with two of my own to make a huge amount of stuffed courgette for dinner.

First you have to boil the courgettes for 4 minutes - then scoop out the flesh and fry it along with onion, mushroom and garlic. add some breadcrumbs, feta cheese, an egg, fresh mint and tarragon and mix it all together. fill scooped out courettes with you mixture and bake them in the over for 15 minutes at 200oC we had ours with bugar wheat and salad - there was way too much.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

This morning I couldn't get out of bed; I tried but there were some disconcerting stabbing pains going on in my stomach.

I bundled myself back under the covers and my boyfriend brought me a piping hot water bottle (my proven cure-all for stomach problems). He then popped out for an hour - during which I slept, waking occasionally to find my arms and legs were really heavy and a kind of numb.

By the time he'd got home I'd decided to drag myself to work, and was justting getting up when he came in through the door, paper bag clutched in his hands, with two hot samosas inside from a nearby shop called the Tall Frog.

We sat on the bed, tucking into our freshly made samosas, before both dashing off to work.